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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

I was busy yesterday with painting, when i finished for the day, my friend showed up and we went drinking. It was hot and all i had to eat was ramen for lunch, all day! I got loaded and stumbled a bit(lots), first time i’ve ever been refused service at one of the places and we hadn’t even started drinking yet WTF!!! Fortunately there’s a ton of breweries in Bozeman, one of them owned by my friend Matt. My head is killing me as i write this, but i really wanted Mike Rob to stay and now i’ll eat my crow. Am i allowed to use bbq or hot sauce? I’m pissed at the Billing judge who game a non existent sentence to a school teacher who had a 3 year relationship with a 14 year old girl who then committed suicide, he got 30 days! Too bad he doesn’t live in my neighborhood or i’d pay him a visit in the middle of the night.
I’m rambling and hurting.

Eric, I really like Shead and the way he has developed so far in his 2nd year with the Seahawks. Safety definitely seems like a better fit for him. I can’t see him making it through waivers to the PS, not with Uncle Gus taking a careful look at who’s filtering through Seahawks waivers.

Parker would be a nice option in the event that T3 succumbs once again to the physical punishment of the NFL, as he seems like a good candidate for that nickle spot, but that spot is probably Lane’s to lose in the event that Thurmond goes down.

Interesting that the judge whom montanamike refers to is the oldest son of Washington Redskins’ legendary quarterback Sammy Baugh. Terrible ruling.

Regarding Winfield, I presume he didn’t show enough in the pre-season games and training camp to justify his salary. If WT3 stays healthy, it probably won’t hurt the Seahawks chances. But that’s a big ‘if.’

Tebow seriously needs to embrace the idea of a position change. Hasn’t God explained that to him yet through prayer? He sure got the message through to Aaron Curry as for what to do in the next stage of his football career,.

I had thought they would keep Antoine for the year, but after watching a healthy Thurmond III it seemed pretty apparent he is claiming the nickel CB spot. I’d still love to see them keep Winfield. the dude could help us win a playoff game or two.

Tebow refused to consider a position change to have a chance to stay in the NFL. With the millions he got being a pre rookie wage scale 1st round draft choice there’s no way his pride would let him accept less than 100k to be a CFL backup.

I’ve heard it suggested that Tim may have a learning disability, and that play book retention is essentially impossible. I don’t want to bag on a guy that may have a disability, so I’ll leave that part out of the equation, but he may just not be educable enough to pick up the FB or TE positions in a reasonable amount of time. He doesn’t really have the tools to be a passer, and the CFL and arena leagues are passer leagues – even more so than the NFL.

It may be time for Tim to just buy a white suit and a large tent and get on with his next career.

Oh well. I really do hope that Eric reads your comment and shakes his head, with that ‘What a baby’ look on his face. Really?!? A poll on who should leave a blog that is FREE-FOR-ALL? Just sad, bro. But no hard feelings. Like I said, I’m here for the HawkTalk.

bbmate – Listen brother. If I offended you, I apologize. I assure you that I’m not that long list of people. There is proof. A few months back that MattandCindy was arguing with some poor guy and I politely asked him to stop and grow up. I just want football talk. I think if we’re both adults we can push this aside as heated stupidity that men often engage in and try to get along. And my earlier comment about I’m right, No I’m right was a joke directed at all. It didn’t land well.

confidence in the CB position? I think Carroll is building the deepest and youngest group of CBs in the league. When they let Browner walk away after this season, instead of paying him a premium contract, they won’t miss a beat.

Curious about this roll over cap. If the cap is 128 and we roll over 6, we have 134 cap right? If we use this cap number, what happens the following year, aren’t they going to have to to cut back dramatically to the 15′ cap and wouldn’t that be a even a more trying problem then trying to figure to roll cap space over. If we are wheeling and dealing to roll cap over, how much are we going to have to do to meet the cap in 15′. It seems like its going to cause an avalanche effect on 15′ just to get back to the cap. Maybe I just don’t grasp the concept.

As the Field Gulls article yesterday talked about ~ The hawks may not be interested in a one trick pony FB any more.. They want more playmakers on the field and using a TE back there may be their plan moving forward..
(along with a younger, cheaper, better runner. coleman/ware)

TruBlu- yes you are correct with what you wrote about the cap but what it does allow a team to do is frontload a contract so most of the players cap hit goes against the 1st year where you have extra cap room do to the cap space that is rolled over.

Mocarob, You’re probably on to something there. More than likely the Hawks are changing their philosophy. I would keep Mayowa on the 53 and chance Lotulelei on PS. Don’t think he’s ready for primetime.

the turnover of our roster is nothing short of magnificent. however, changing what they have professed is the ‘identity’ of our offense (power running) when it is clicking on all cylinders is frightening. lynch calls mikerob his ‘eyes’…the zbs is built for vision.

Remember Michael Bamiro, the 6’8″ 344 lb. tackle from Stony Brook that wasn’t part of the regular draft and somehow wasn’t eligible for the supplemental draft either? Philadelphia just cut him. He sounded like a good idea at the time but I guess not.

I’m sorry, Hawkjitsu. I seriously thought you were someone else from the M’s blog. It doesn’t matter. I will certainly drop any animosity. If you detect some from me, talk to me and I will certainly apologize if I think I’m wrong

Done and done. I really appreciate it, brother. It will be fun to go back and forth with you. I’ve had my fair share of trollsters just itching to get into it. I automatically could tell that you were not that. Mad dope superfly bomb-sh1t retarded ice cold props. lol.

Sweet. Wilson is going to get his in NY. JG is always money. Fitz will FINALLY have a QB that can at least get him the ball. I’m also thinking Randall Cobb for a flex. Dude is going to get fed the ball. Opinion?

If WTIII wasn’t in a contract year – he’d be my new jersey purchase! Love that guy!

I really thought we’d keep the CBs, including Winfield, and go with some packages with a heck of a lot of CBs on the field (Mr. Happy out of the box thinking).

Winfield is good so it’s tough to see him go. If saving a million bucks was such a big deal, I’m not sure why they’d trade so many picks (those players wouldn’t make much) and $11 million per year to a proven malcontent who cares about one person (himself) when that would make it easier to pay guys like ET and Sherman (not that they still can’t – I expect them to be in Seattle for a long time – it just makes it harder).

BobbyK, I’ve been holding some of that back. I don’t want to make any final pronouncement on Harvin, but I have thought about it. They need to figure it out before they guarantee another 11 mil. We’ll see what happens in 2013. Harvin better stay healthy the next few years and play great to justify it.

Hawkjitsu – I have #3 in a 12 team league. I’m taking Lynch (assurances from the other two that Lynch will be there). Then I traded my #5/8 for a high pick in the 3rd and their last round pick. I’m hoping to go:
1. Lynch (slam dunk)
2. Graham (unless someone stupid gets passed on like Julio Jones)
3a. Wilson (much higher on him now that he’s first in line for goal line carries)
3b. Fitz
4. Best available RB/WR (we start 3 WRs and also a flex), perhaps Decker
5. no pick
6. I have my fingers crossed that one of Wilson, Luck, and Stafford is still available. If I get too nervous about waiting this long for a QB and Matt Ryan is available in the 4th, I may go that route.

bbmate – The Harvin trade could eventually turn out great for the Seahawks organization. The Hawks have a great team and it’s hard to be mad when you’re winning most of the time. And he’s the type of talent that can make a very good team into a great team.

My worry is that Harvin was a malcontent in high school when he had no money, a malcontent at Florida when he supposedly didn’t have any money, and then when he started getting paid in the NFL – he’s had trouble with the only two NFL coaches he’s ever had. I worry about giving a player of that character that much money.

Some guys like Russell Wilson – you don’t worry about. They are going to give 100% when they get paid and that’s why you keep them and pay them. Harvin, I worry about.

For last reg season, PFF had AW (Antoine Winfield) ranked 1st among CB performances and RS (Richard Sherman) ranked a close 2nd. The thing is that RS was way better than AW in coverage but AW was way better than RS against the run and at not getting so many penalties.

This preseason, AW only played 27 snaps (8 vs SD and 19 vs DEN, fewest plays of all SEA’s DBs), PManning was the only QB who threw to someone covered by AW (PM targeted Wes Welker) who caught it for an 11 yd TD (6 yds YAC) and PM got a 152.1 NFL QB Rating throwing into AW’s coverage. AW got no tackles or assists in either game he played in and got a penalty in his 8 plays vs SD.

If I was Tebow, and really wanted to show I could play, I would go to the CFL (like Moon) or Arena League (like Warner) and give it one more shot to prove people wrong. Unless I’m mistaken, he took the Bronco’s as far into the playoffs as Peyton did, orthodox or not. A lot of those criticizing him (no one on this blog) have a bias against anyone that doesn’t fit the mold. Like someone being too short, for instance.

Front office must be burning the phone lines trying to make trades before cutting people. Winfield has to have some trade value. With the other QB’s chopped, Quinn probably doesn’t unless his preseason play impressed someone.

22 cuts have to be done by 6 pm eastern today – that’s 3 pm here (about an hour and a half from now). So far all we’ve seen is M.Robinson, A.Winfield, J.Howard cut, and M.Bowie to IR. That leaves 18 more, unless they pick up some guys (if they can) on waivers or vet cuts from other teams…

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